Stripe product manager interview questions
78 questions asked in Stripe product manager interviews: 27 product design, 15 strategy, 10 metrics, 4 estimation, 11 behavioral, 11 AI & technical. Each has an answer guide, and you can practice any of them in a mock interview.
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Product design questions (27)
- How would you improve the Uber app?Lyft · Product design · Easy
- For a retail store, users are frequently complaining about long queues during check out. What strategy would you use to improve the experience in the short term and long term?Shopify · Product design · Medium
- How would you re-design the carwash?Spotify · Product design · Medium
- You're a PM at a vending machine company. Your CEO asks you to design a new line of vending machines to be placed in hotels and motels. What would you do?Google · Product design · Hard
- How would you design an app to help people choose which cheese to buy at a grocery store?Stripe · Product design · Easy
- What is your favorite product? Why?PayPal · Product design · Easy
- Design Dynamic Pricing for Lyft.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Design an ATM for airports.Google · Product design · Medium
- Design Netflix for Senior Citizens (Goal: Increase engagement time).Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve Uber for a football event?Google · Product design · Medium
- You are a new PM at Google Pay. Design a feature for paying credit card bills.Shopify · Product design · Medium
- How do you improve Slack?Slack · Product design · Easy
- Describe your top 3 favorite products and why. Products can be hardware or software, for example, a chair, hairdryer, etc.Google · Product design · Easy
- How would you improve Dropbox?Google · Product design · Easy
- Improve the in-store grocery shopping experience.Shopify · Product design · Medium
- If Stripe wanted to expand into personal finance tools, what would you build first?Stripe · Product design · Hard
- Pick one feature in a product like Stripe that you would improve — what would you change and why?Stripe · Product design · Medium
- As the PM of Domino's Pizza, generate ten concepts aimed at enhancing the end-to-end speed spanning from order placement to final delivery.Stripe · Product design · Medium
- Auto drivers in India experience regular cash flow problems and resort to taking informal credit to resolve this issue. Consequently, they find themselves trapped in a vicious cycle of debt. How can technology be used to solve this?Stripe · Product design · Hard
- How do you improve the check out experience for Airbnb?Instacart · Product design · Easy
- How would you redesign a Microwave?Google · Product design · Easy
- Design a credit card system.Stripe · Product design · Hard
- Name two products that are bad but successful anyway.Stripe · Product design · Easy
- You are the GM of Disneyland. You want to lower the length of the waiting lines. What do you do?Stripe · Product design · Medium
- Design a banking application for kids.Stripe · Product design · Easy
- How would you improve fraud detection at Stripe without disrupting legitimate payments.Stripe · Product design · Hard
- As a product manager at Stripe, how would you improve the checkout experience for businesses and customers while reducing payment failures?Stripe · Product design · Medium
Strategy questions (15)
- What should Airbnb's strategy be during the COVID-19 pandemic?Google · Strategy · Hard
- How do you think the payment industry will evolve over the next 5 years?Stripe · Strategy · Hard
- You are the PM for a B2C product that has an advertisement-based monetization model with significant and steady daily revenues. One day, there are no ads served and the revenues plummet to zero. What would be your strategy, as a Product Manager, to deal with this crisis?Google · Strategy · Hard
- How will you reduce Paypal's operating costs by 50%?PayPal · Strategy · Hard
- Define a strategy of loyalty program for Google Pay.Google · Strategy · Hard
- What would your roadmap be for Google Pay? 1 year vs 3 years.Swiggy · Strategy · Hard
- You are a PM at Uber. Devise strategies to improve revenue.Swiggy · Strategy · Hard
- What would be your strategy to bring partners onto the Facebook platform for Black Friday?Stripe · Strategy · Hard
- Merchants have reported that requiring billing details in Stripe Checkout is causing friction and negatively impacting conversion rates. How would you respond to this feedback?Stripe · Strategy · Medium
- Imagine you are VP of Product for Google Chrome OS and Android. What is your goal for the next 3 to 5 years?Google · Strategy · Hard
- How would you prevent fraud for fintech products like Sofi?PayPal · Strategy · Hard
- How will you improve retention of a remittances product? How would you validate your ideas and assumptions?Stripe · Strategy · Medium
- You have been hired as a CPO of a small bricks-and-mortar Supermarket chain that has no online presence and has seen declining revenue over the last 5-10 years. What would you do?Stripe · Strategy · Hard
- You have been hired by an Airline consortium and been giving a budget of $1m to change the perception that Air Travel is not enjoyable - what would you do?Stripe · Strategy · Hard
- What should be stripe's credit card strategy?Stripe · Strategy · Hard
Metrics questions (10)
- There is a data point that indicates that there are more Uber drop-offs at the airport than pick-ups from the airport. Why is this the case and what would you do within the product to change that?PayPal · Metrics · Hard
- Drivers are dropping out of a city on Lyft. How do you figure out what's going on?PayPal · Metrics · Medium
- Imagine you are a PM in Amazon. How would you reduce the rate of returns?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
- Orders cancellation increased by 15%. How do you diagnose the root cause?Shopify · Metrics · Medium
- A B2B payment cards issuing company has observed a sudden drop in the use of their cards on e-commerce platforms, in the month of april. Analyze the problem using appropriate assumptions. Suggest solutions to get the usage back on track.PayPal · Metrics · Hard
- How would you measure the success of stripe billing?Stripe · Metrics · Medium
- We are noticing a 10% drop in our check out page conversion rate. What would you do?Stripe · Metrics · Medium
- How would you measure the success of stripe check out page?Stripe · Metrics · Medium
- How would you triage a 10% drop in rider cancellations?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- You are a PM at Slack. Slack is losing customers big time after Microsoft Teams got launched. What would you do?Slack · Metrics · Hard
Estimation questions (4)
- How many dentists are there in New York?Google · Estimation · Easy
- How would you design a service like Instagram? Estimate server and storage requirement for peak traffic.Google · Estimation · Hard
- How many elevators should an average office building have?Google · Estimation · Easy
- How many passengers are in planes in the air at any given time in the U.S.A.?Google · Estimation · Easy
Behavioral questions (11)
- Tell me about a time when you used data to influence/persuade people.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you had conflict with a team member or a manager.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- How would you make something significantly simpler for a customer?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me a time when you influenced engineering to build a particular feature.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you were trying to understand a problem on your team and you had to go down several layers to figure it out. Who did you talk with and what information proved most valuable? How did you use that information to help solve the problem?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time you've had to change the way you work.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- What is your superpower as a product manager?PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell us about a time you had an idea that your team was skeptical about. How did you convince your team that you were right?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with a team member.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a product you've built that you're proud of.Spotify · Behavioral · Easy
- What will the payment industry look like in 3 to 5 years?Stripe · Behavioral · Hard
AI & Technical questions (11)
- How does the system design for Strava work?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
- How will you design a web service that enables other developers to create online chat applications?Microsoft · AI & Technical · Hard
- Imagine that you are a product manager at Google Maps and you wish to integrate with DoorDash so that users can order delivery. Your task is to design the API.Stripe · AI & Technical · Hard
- What are the technologies used for development of a streaming service app?Ask Media · AI & Technical · Easy
- Design a Shopify checkout system.Shopify · AI & Technical · Hard
- How do you design an API?Google · AI & Technical · Easy
- Design the security for a chat/messaging application.Microsoft · AI & Technical · Hard
- How does Stripe work?Stripe · AI & Technical · Easy
- Walk me through a project you worked on with technical details.Stripe · AI & Technical · Easy
- Design a ledger for a payment processing system.Stripe · AI & Technical · Hard
- Design a monitoring and alerting system.Stripe · AI & Technical · Hard
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